Transmission tunnel cover removal

[philmorton]

😳

 

I have a 2006 CSR with a nice leather covered transmission tunnel cover. I'm struggling to remove this (attempting to locate power socket cable). There are two screws at the back, nothing (I can see) at the front but the gear lever and handbrake gaiters are integral to the cover and I can't for the life of me see how to disengage everything. The back lifts and moves but not enough to look underneath. Am I missing a trick?

[myothercarsa2cv]

If it's anything like the S3... Remove screws, remove gear knob, slacken off handbrake fully, pull handbrake right up, (optional - take out tillett seat), lift up and off, curse, wiggle it, curse some more, remove.

[Stationary M25 Traveller]

You definitely need a fully erect handbrake lever 😳

[Paul McKenzie]

As the others say, plus the only way I can remove mine is also to unscrew the heater and pull it a few inches forward of the bulkhead, so that it's possible to wriggle the front of the cover up and through the bulkhead

 

Paul

[michaeljclark]

On my SV the power cable was cable tied to the top of the diff. Which would have been OK except that it's just out of reach with the boot floor out,its sitting under the bulkead panel between the boot/back of drivers seat, which makes it all but impossible to get to without removing a panel that you rivett into place once the hand brake etc is installed (having looked in the build manual)

 

So I gave up and ran another length of cable that is now (after a little help) switched via the ignition, down the transmission tunnel and it pops out by the drivers seat.

 

Mike